People smugglers jailed in Spain over migrant deaths

The prosecutor's office in Ceuta said the sentences were decided without trial after a plea deal was reached with the men.

As winds grew stronger on approaching the port city of Ceuta, the smugglers forced the migrants to jump into the water and swim to shore.The two people smugglers were each charged with four counts of negligent homicide and an offence against the rights of foreign nationals.The two men were also ordered to pay €205,000 in compensation to each of the victims’ families.

In another recent case, Spanish police arrested three people for the deaths of five migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off the boat they were traveling in with dozens of other migrants off the Spanish mainland’s southern coast last November.

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